Falsettos
Music & Lyrics by William Finn Book by William Finn & James Lapine
Directed by James Lapine
A seamless pairing of March of the Falsettos and Falsettoland, two acclaimed Off-Broadway musicals written nearly a decade apart, Falsettos is the tale of a neurotic New Yorker named Marvin, who leaves his wife Trina and young son Jason to live with his lover, Whizzer. In time, Trina marries his psychiatrist, Whizzer leaves him, and Marvin ends up alone. Two years later, Marvin and Whizzer reunite on the eve of Jason’s bar mitzvah, just as AIDS is beginning its insidious spread. With the help of their neighbors, Charlotte and Cordelia, Marvin and his entire family learn to grow up and face their future with love and dignity.
Falsettos (Original Broadway)
Directed by James Lapine
The John Golden Theatre
April 4, 1992 - June 27, 1993
Photos by Martha Swope
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Music by William Finn
Lyrics by William Finn
Book by William Finn and James Lapine
Directed by James Lapine
Theatre Owned / Operated by The Shubert Organization (Gerald Schoenfeld: Chairman; Bernard B. Jacobs: President)
Produced by Barry & Fran Weissler; Produced in association with James Cushing, Maureen O'Sullivan Cushing, Masakazu Shibaoka and Broadway Pacific; Associate Producer: Alecia Parker
FALSETTOLAND was produced off-Broadway by Maurice Rosenfield, Lois F. Rosenfield and Steven Suskin.
Music arranged by Michael Starobin; Musical Director: Scott Frankel; Additional vocal arrangements by Alison Fraser
Assistant Director: Michael Sexton
Scenic Design by Douglas Stein
Costume Design by Ann Hould-Ward
Lighting Design by Frances Aronson
Sound Design by Peter Fitzgerald
Hair Design by Phyllis Della
Make-Up Design by Denise Spatarella
Assistant to Mr. Stein: E. David Cosier, Jr.
Assistant to Ms. Hould-Ward: Claudia Stephens
General Manager: Barbara Darwall
Company Manager: Kim Sellon
Technical Supervisor: Arthur Siccardi
Production Supervisor: Craig Jacobs
Stage Manager: Karen Armstrong
Music Contractor: John Monaco
Music Preparation: Emily Grishman
Casting: Wendy Ettinger, Stuart Howard and Amy Schecter
Press Representative: The Pete Sanders Group
Marketing Consultant: Dan Klores Associates, Inc. and Hayley Sumner
Advertising: Grey Entertainment, Inc.
Art by The Estate of Keith Haring
Photographer: Carol Rosegg and Martha Swope and Associates
Assistant to the Producer: Nancy Wilson and Arianna Alberghini -
Stephen Bogardus: Whizzer
Michael Rupert: Marvin
Chip Zien: Mendel
Carolee Carmello: Cordelia
Jonathan Kaplan: Jason
Andrew Harrison Leeds: Jason (alternate)
Heather MacRae: Charlotte
Barbara Walsh: Trina
Understudies: Philip Hoffman (Marvin, Mendel), John Ruess (Whizzer), Sal Viviano (Marvin, Whizzer), Susan Goodman (Trina)
Replacements:
Mandy Patinkin: Marvin
Gregg Edelman: Marvin
Adrian Zmed: Marvin
Jason Graae: Mendel
Sean McDermott: Whizzer
Sal Viviano: Whizzer
Maureen Moore: Cordelia
Sivan Cotel: Jason
Jeffrey Landman: Jason (Alternate)
Randy Graff: Trina
March of the Falsettos (Act 1) and Falsettoland (Act 2) form the musical Falsettos. Putting both one-act musicals together back to back was first done by director/choreographer Graciela Daniele at Hartford Stage in 1991. Finn and Lapine then made some adjustments to the two acts to form the Falsettos that opened on Broadway in 1992.
Falsettos (2016 Revival)
Directed by James Lapine
The Walter Kerr Theatre
October 27, 2016 - January 8, 2017
Photos by Joan Marcus
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Music and Lyrics by William Finn
Book by William Finn and James Lapine
Directed by James Lapine
Theatre Owned / Operated by Jujamcyn Theaters (Jordan Roth: President; Rocco Landesman: President Emeritus; Paul Libin: Executive Vice President; Jack Viertel: Senior Vice President)
Produced by Lincoln Center Theater (André Bishop: Producing Artistic Director; Adam Siegel: Managing Director; Hattie K. Jutagir, Executive Director of Development and Planning)
Produced in association with Jujamcyn Theaters; Mindich Chair Musical Theater
Associate Producer: Ira Weitzman
'March of the Falsettos' (1981) and 'Falsettoland' (1990) produced Off-Broadway by Playwrights Horizons (Robert Moss, Producing Director; André Bishop, Artistic Director)
Choreography: Spencer Liff
Set Design: David Rockwell
Costume Design: Jennifer Caprio
Lighting Design: Jeff Croiter
Sound Design: Dan Moses Schreier
Musical Direction: Vadim Feichtner
Orchestrations: Michael Starobin
Hair and Wig Design by Tom Watson
Make-Up Design by Rachel Estabrook
Associate Director: Eric Santagata
Assistant Choreographer: Ellenore Scott
Associate Scenic Design: Dick Jaris
Associate Lighting Design: Kirk Fitzgerald
Associate Sound Design: Joshua Reid
Associate Hair and Wig Design: Tommy Kurzman
Assistant Scenic Design: T.J. Greenway
Assistant Costume Design: Johanna Pan
Assistant Lighting Design: Christopher Lundahl
Moving Light Programmer: Victor Seastone
General Manager: Jessica Niebanck
Associate Gen. Mgr: Meghan Lantzy
Company Manager: Matthew Markoff
Production Manager: Paul Smithyman
Associate Prod. Mgr: Kevin Orzechowski
Assistant Prod. Mgr: Polina Minchuk
Production Stage Manager: Scott Taylor Rollison
1st Assistant Stage Manager: Zac Chandler
2nd Assistant Stage Manager: Samantha Fremer
Technical Supervisor: William Nagle and Patrick Merryman
Musical Coordinator: Michael Keller
Conducted by Vadim Feichtner
Associate Conductor: David Gardos
Piano: Vadim Feichtner
Keyboard: David Gardos
Reeds: Rick Heckman
Drums/Percussion: Jay Mack
Synthesizer Programmer: Taylor Williams and Cohen Keyboards
Assistant Synth Programmer: Jeremy King
Music Copying: Emily Grishman Music Preparation
Properties: Kathy Fabian and Propstar
Casting: Tara Rubin, C.S.A. and Eric Woodall, CSA
General Press Agent: Philip Rinaldi
Advertising, Marketing, Digital: SPOTCo, Inc.
LCT Director of Marketing: Linda Mason Ross
Dance Captain: Tally Sessions
Photographer: Joan Marcus
Video Services: Fresh Produce Productions
Videographer: Frank Basile
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Opening Night Cast:
Stephanie J. Block: Trina
Christian Borle: Marvin
Andrew Rannells: Whizzer
Anthony Rosenthal: Jason
Tracie Thoms: Dr. Charlotte
Brandon Uranowitz: Mendel
Betsy Wolfe: Cordelia
Understudies: Courtney Balan (Dr. Charlotte, Cordelia, Trina), Colin Hanlon (Marvin, Whizzer, Mendel), Peyton Lusk (Jason), Tally Sessions (Whizzer, Mendel, Marvin) and Stephanie Umoh (Dr. Charlotte, Cordelia, Trina)
Winner of the 1992 Tony Award for Best Book of a Musical
Winner of the 1992 Tony Award for Best Score of a Musical
Nominee: Seven 1992 Tony Awards, including Best Musical
Nominee for four 2017 Tony Awards, including Best Revival of a Musical
Nominee for three 2017 Drama Desk Awards, including Outstanding Revival of a Musical
Awards, Reviews & Features
“‘Falsettos’ is a show in which the boundary separating Off Broadway and Broadway is obliterated, a show in which the most stylish avatars of the new American musical embrace the same thorny urban landscape of embattled men and women to be found in so many new American plays.”
Read a Playbill feature here about Lapine and Finn’s collaboration.
“There’s hardly a moment in the exhilarating, devastating revival of the musical ‘Falsettos’ that doesn’t approach, or even achieve, perfection… This singular show… has been restored to life, some 25 years after it was first produced, with such vitality that it feels as fresh and startling as it did back in 1992… [Lapine’s] work is so sharp it’s as if he were seeing the show with a new pair of eyes.”
“In fact, pretty much everything about Lincoln Center Theater‘s ideally cast Broadway revival, again directed by Lapine with as much humor as sensitivity, makes it pure pleasure.”
